.granted be will for wish you favor next the
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		spit-spat the faucet.  once.  digesting whatisaid.
		twice.  into its handicup a pool of solitude standing.
		dishwater.

		oh commitment.  i just made a commitment.  it was so easy.
		and just as likely.  so wrong to make.

		just turned against the stainless steel sink yes the
		very one once bracing her and her and her the one and only.

		just exhaled.  slowly.
		just said it out loud.  loudly.  so there'd be no mistaking.

		<hey you would you play match game with me what did i say:>
		i want to marry... 

		okay.  now that's a fortune cookie reader's
		fortune wouldntyasay:

		the next favor you wish for will be granted.


			Marek Lugowski
			24 March 1998
			Chicago, Illinois